Uncut
Curated by taste and lineage

Up to four players lean over the same coin-pushing machine, feeding it together, and whether that pays off in a jackpot or a swarm of yokai closing in depends on how well you push as one.

An online cooperative coin pusher made and self-published by STP WORKS, a two-person independent studio. Per Steam's own listing, up to four players push coins together in an Edo-period setting to defeat yokai, repel swarms of skulls, and chase the jackpot, upgrading abilities and equipment as they go, with random matchmaking, friends-only matchmaking, and solo play all supported. Cooperative events include yokai-defeating rounds and a coin-tossing minigame styled after a traditional ball-toss game, with yokai scaling in strength to match the players' own power and stronger yokai paying out bigger rewards; players also collect Edo-period-themed prizes that eventually spawn magatama, the comma-shaped beads of ancient Japanese ornament, spent alongside old coins on equipment and upgrades. It is the second entry in a series that began with Old Coin Pusher Friends (2021). In a Game*Spark interview, the developer, going by the handle Danoji, described the studio as run by two friends who started the company together roughly two years earlier, one handling development and Danoji himself handling marketing and operations; the game itself launched through a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding campaign that ran April 28 to May 12, 2023, with a ¥10,000 goal drawing ¥644,500 from 346 backers, more than 60 times its target. Released May 18, 2023 at ¥470, it is Very Positive at about 90.6 percent over 469 reviews (425 positive, 44 negative), a paid title, not free, fully launched and not in Early Access, with Steam Achievements and Cloud support, no AI-generated assets, and per Steam's own content descriptors, nothing sexual. Only about 44 of its 469 reviews, some 9.4 percent, are in English, leaving the great majority of its audience still in Japan.

Published 2026-07-21

01First, the one feeling

02Who this is for (and who it is not)

For you

  • You want a physics-based coin pusher built for cooperation, not solitude: up to four players sharing the same machine, the same yokai fights, and the same jackpot chase
  • You want a genuinely small, independent Japanese studio with a real founding story: two friends, a company started about two years before launch, and a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than 60 times its goal
  • You want a Very Positive title (about 90.6 percent over 469 reviews) whose audience is still overwhelmingly Japanese, with English readers only around 9 percent

Not for you

  • You want a single-player-only experience; this is built around cooperative play, though solo is supported
  • You want a score closer to the site's ideal 95 percent; 90.6 percent clears the bar but isn't the strongest score featured here, and it is a paid title, not free and not in Early Access, with no AI-generated assets and, per Steam's own content descriptors, nothing sexual

03The roots of this taste

91% positiveonly 469 reviews — yet almost no one has found it

Old Coin Pusher Friends 2 Buried gem

Per Steam's own listing, this is an online cooperative coin pusher game set in the Edo period: up to four players push coins together to defeat yokai, repel swarms of skulls, and chase the jackpot, upgrading abilities and equipment as they go, with random matchmaking for one-time encounters, friends-only matchmaking for private sessions, and solo play all supported. Cooperative events include yokai-defeating rounds and a coin-tossing minigame styled after a traditional ball-toss game, with yokai scaling in strength to match the players' own power and stronger yokai paying out bigger rewards; players also collect Edo-period-themed prizes that accumulate prize points, eventually spawning magatama, the comma-shaped beads of ancient Japanese ornament, and equipment such as secondary launchers and flags, along with coin attack power and fire-rate upgrades, are bought with old coins earned in play or the magatama earned from prizes. It is the second entry in a series that began with Old Coin Pusher Friends (2021). Made and self-published by STP WORKS, a small independent company its own developer, going by the handle Danoji, describes in a Game*Spark interview as being run by two friends who started the company together roughly two years earlier, one handling development and Danoji himself handling marketing and operations, with the friend serving as company representative; the game itself launched through a CAMPFIRE crowdfunding campaign that ran April 28 to May 12, 2023, with a ¥10,000 goal drawing ¥644,500 from 346 backers, more than 60 times its target. Released May 18, 2023 at ¥470, it is Very Positive at about 90.6 percent over 469 reviews (425 positive, 44 negative per Steam's own review API), a paid title, not free, fully launched and not in Early Access, with Steam Achievements and Cloud support, no AI-generated assets, and per Steam's own content descriptors, nothing sexual. It supports English, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and only about 44 of its 469 reviews, some 9.4 percent, are in English, leaving the great majority of its audience still in Japan.

Give it your first pass

Coin Pusher The digital origin

The digital origin of this taste: Coin Pusher, RewindApp's 2019 PC recreation of the real-world funfair and arcade machine of the same name, in which coins slide across a moving shelf and every coin you feed it might, or might not, tip a stack of others over the edge. Old Coin Pusher Friends 2 does not reuse this game's code or assets, but it takes the same physical concept, coins pushed by a moving shelf toward an edge, and builds an Edo-period, yokai-fighting, up-to-four-player cooperative game on top of it, turning a solitary arcade machine into something you sit down to push together.

Give it your first pass

04Make this gem shine

If it speaks to you, check it on Steam and give it your first pass. Your push is what makes a buried gem shine.

See it on Steam

05The bloodline of this taste